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The Air Up There

How Sec. Michael Donley sees sequestration and the future of aerial warfare.

INTERVIEW BY JOHN REED | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Don't Give Up on the Arab Spring

Why America did the right thing in Libya -- and freedom will eventually win.

BY SHADI HAMID | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

A Nun at the Nuclear Gates

How an 82-year-old nun upended the lax regulation of the U.S. nuclear weapons establishment.

BY R. JEFFREY SMITH AT THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Stealing the Hymnal

The Democrats might have real differences over foreign policy with their Republican challengers, but you wouldn't know it from listening to them.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Never Say 'Never Again'

Our foolish obsession with stopping the next attack.

BY JULIETTE KAYYEM | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Bin There, Done That

Since when did the Democrats start talking like Rudy Giuliani?

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Three Wars on Terror

Ronald Reagan and the battle for Obama's strategic soul.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Coasting

Was the U.S. Navy really better in 1917?

BY JAMES HOLMES | SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Cancer at the Core

The key to ensuring America's long-term national security is something neither Democrats nor Republicans really seem to understand.

BY JAMES TRAUB | SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

This Week At War: The Pentagon Doesn't Have the Right Stuff

The Navy can't 'contain' Iran -- even if we wanted it to.

BY ROBERT HADDICK | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Parliamentary Lights

Canada's politicians take on the F-35.

BY WINSLOW WHEELER | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Is It Over Yet?

Watching the past two weeks of the Republican and Democratic conventions, it's hard to remember a more grotesque political event. 

BY ALEX MASSIE | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Tensions in September

BY RACHEL DOBBS | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

A Man with a Plan

Unlike Mitt Romney, Barack Obama not only has a plan to strengthen American statecraft, he's got four years of achievements to show for his efforts.

BY CHARLES A. KUPCHAN , BRUCE W. JENTLESON | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

What's Not Wrong With Drones?

The wildly overblown case against remote-controlled war. 

BY ROSA BROOKS | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Left Behind

Obama has turned his back on us liberals. So why aren't we screaming about it?

BY TODD GITLIN | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Why Obama Will Win

Whatever his failings, the president is likeable enough -- and incumbency is a powerful home-court advantage.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

A Classified CIA Mea Culpa on Iraq

In this exclusive from the National Security Archive, a secret agency report on its WMD failures is published for the first time.

BY TOM BLANTON | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Are We Winning in Afghanistan?

An exclusive interview with Gen. John Allen, commander of America's forgotten war.

INTERVIEW BY GORDON LUBOLD | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

7 Questionable Claims in the Democratic Platform

From Guantánamo to Joseph Kony, the boasts that could invite a backlash.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Shipping Out

Are aircraft carriers becoming obsolete?

BY ROBERT HADDICK | AUGUST 31, 2012

Pretty Vacant

After three empty days in Tampa, the Republican Party seems out of ideas on how to run America's foreign policy.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | AUGUST 31, 2012

America, the Insecure

Hey, America: You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you. Thoughts from across the pond on the U.S. obsession with exceptionalism.

BY ALEX MASSIE | AUGUST 30, 2012

Sound and Sensible

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy would echo the best of America’s bipartisan traditions. But the desperate Obama caricature of it is just a sad indication of how much the president has failed.

BY PETER D. FEAVER | AUGUST 30, 2012

All the Pentagon's Lawyers

One man's targeted strike is another man's state-sanctioned murder.

BY ROSA BROOKS | AUGUST 29, 2012

Romney's Mad-Libs Foreign Policy

International affairs is serious business -- not a game of fill-in-the-blanks.

BY JOHN NORRIS | AUGUST 29, 2012

Leading from the Front

It's time for some straight talk about the world, Mr. President.

BY JOHN MCCAIN | AUGUST 28, 2012

Will Romney Discover His Inner Nixon?

The coming GOP fight between realists and neocons.

BY JACOB HEILBRUNN | AUGUST 27, 2012

What Would Ronald Reagan Do?

Mitt Romney shouldn't shy away from a fight on foreign policy. He can win it.

BY JAMIE M. FLY | AUGUST 27, 2012

The FP 50

The 50 most powerful Republicans on foreign policy.

AUGUST 24, 2012